Warrior Queen

(The). Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni.

When the British warrior queen,
Bleeding from the Roman rods,
Sought, with an indignant mien,
Counsel of her country's gods ...

Cowper: Boadicea.

The Iceni were the faithful allies of Rome; but, on the death of
Prasutagus, king of that tribe, the Roman procurator took possession
of the kingdom of Prasutagus; and when the widow Boadicea complained
thereof, the procurator had her beaten with rods like a slave.